Football, race, and American socialism
American football is full of metaphors and paradoxes. The NFL is the most socialistic framework and business model in all of professional sports.
The Sanders campaign, political revolution, and the 2016 elections
Political boundaries are being eclipsed and thinking reshaped. Seeds of change are being sown and foundations are being laid for deeper-going changes.
Rebuild America's infrastructure
We didn't need the horrors of children at risk from fouled lead pipes in Flint, Michigan to know that our infrastructure is dangerously decrepit.
What is socialism? Let’s get specific
Sanders' campaign for president certainly has elevated the discussion on socialism to a national stage. But what does it mean?
Have you “turned around”? Reflections on my generation’s political evolution
Did I "rapidly burn out?" Did most of my friends in "the movement" follow that course? I rather think not.
Bernie Sanders should have done better with Clyde Bellecourt’s treaty question
Sanders was asked a very important question looming in the minds of American Indian voters, and could have done much more.
Shining a light on Scalia and the Supreme Court
It's our turn to lift up our voices, clarify concretely what the stakes are, and what kind of justice fits our times.
Megan Green: Unbossed and unbought
A quiet storm, which has been brewing here since mid-January, has recently become a political tsunami.
Notes on the eve of the New Hampshire primary
If you stretch out your time frame, the results of Bernie's showing in Iowa are a big quake on the Richter scale of American politics.
Hillary Clinton and the urn of ashes
Historical blindness has been much on display in the run-up to the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries.
